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FIBERuary Day 20 Green Mountain Spinnery
Green Mountain Spinnery is a cooperatively run woolen spinning mill located in the southeast corner of Vermont. It was founded in 1981 with three goals: creating yarns of the highest quality, supporting regional and breed specific sheep farming, and developing environmentally sound ways to process natural fibers. We work exclusively with US sourced fibers and are one of the only certified organic yarn mills in the country.
You can learn a bit more about the founders by listening to Woolful podcast episode 41. David, Claire and Libby share their memories of starting the Spinnery as well as their perspective on how it has evolved over the decades.
Today we balance our production between manufacturing yarns for our direct customers and processing fiber for others. Shepherds, dyers and weavers have come to rely on our gained expertise to created finished products that maintain their fibers’ natural characteristics and charms. These custom projects extend the range of fibers that we normally work with in our yarns (wool, alpaca, mohair, cotton and Tencel) to include some unusual fibers such as yak, bison, angora and camel.
Our mill resides in a converted gas station just off the northbound exit of I-91. A tour through our facility will give you a unique chance to travel back in time thanks to the vintage machinery used in our manufacturing process. For example, our extractor and several parts of our carding machine are over 100 years old.
Maintaining these machines and finding ways to re-use and recycle our fibers and water attests to our ongoing commitment to making our yarns with as minimal an impact on our local environment as possible.
And our yarns reflect our passion.
As the fiber is transformed from raw material to skein, it is handled and inspected over 20 times. This ensures that there are many of us confirming the quality of our yarns at every step along the way. And this attention to detail is valued by our customers who have come to trust the reliability of our products.
We hope that you’ll visit the Spinnery when you are in our corner of New England. We’d love to walk you through our mill and share with you how fiber is transformed into yarn and from there into heirlooms that will be as functional as they are beautiful.
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